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45 lines
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" basic essentials
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" don't make vim vi compatible (if not set you miss out on a lot of features!)
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" you'll see this option set in most configuration files found online
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set nocompatible
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" enable filetype recognition plus indent and plugin (pretty much mandatory)
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filetype plugin indent on " required
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" enable syntax highlighting
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syntax on
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" backspace can be a tricky thing and this setting make it work a lot better
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set backspace=indent,eol,start
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" when tab completing on the expert line you don't want to miss out on EDIT vs
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" edit or nerdtree vs NERDTree and this setting ignores case completely
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set ignorecase
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" highlight your search patterns (very handy when building regexes)
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set hlsearch
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" highlight the search pattern as-you-go (tremendously helpful when
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" constructing regexes)
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set incsearch
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" always show a status line at the bottom of your vim which shows some basic
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" information about the file, which line you're at etc
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set laststatus=2
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" show files in statusbar when opening via expert mode
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set wildmenu
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" also show all possible expert mode commands in the statusline
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set wildmode=full
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" reverse numbering (in the sideline) so you don't have to manually count how
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" many lines you have to yank
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set rnu
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" can do copy paste from the clipboard
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set clipboard=unnamedplus
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